Ester asked why people are sad.
“That’s simple,” says the old man. “They are the prisoners of their personal history. Everyone believes that the main aim in life is to follow a plan. They never ask if that plan is theirs or if it was created by another person. They accumulate experiences, memories, things, other people's ideas, and it is more than they can possibly cope with. And that is why they forget their dreams.”
-Paulo Coelho
"The Zahir"
Quotations
Dream
If you can dream it, you can do it.
-Walt Disney
If you take responsibility for yourself, you will develop a hunger to accomplish your dreams.
-Les Brown
When a human awakens to a great dream and throws the full force of his soul over it, all the universe conspires in your favor.
-Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe
Some men see things as they are and ask why. Others dream of things that never were and ask why not.
-George Bernard Shaw
Those who dream by day are cognizant of many things which escape those who dream only by night.
-Edgar Allan Poe
I think we dream so we don't have to be apart so long. If we're in each other's dreams, we can play together all night.
-Bill Watterson
"Calvin & Hobbes"
A dream which is not interpreted is like a letter which is not read.
-The Talmud
The best reason for having dreams is that in dreams no reasons are necessary.
-Ashleigh Brilliant
If he can't sleep, how will he ever dream?
-Eddie Vedder
